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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17
TRIBES or LITTLE roLks.

Tho Three Most Notable commsnittss sf
Dwarfs I'm Africa.
A while ago Mr.. Grenfell Of the Congo
missions encountered ON the Bosad nver,
south Of the Congo, the Batwa dwarfs
HON Stanley mentions in The Dark
Continent, !" though Stanley did not see
them. Grenfell says these little people
exist over large extent Of country, their
villages being scattered here and there
among other tribes. Wissman and Pogge
also met them few years ago IN their
journey to Nyangwe.
1t was long supposed that the story OF
Herodotus about the pigmies Of Africa
was mythical, but within the past twenty
years abundant evidence has accumulated
OF the existence Of number Of tribes Of
curious little folks in equatorial Africa.
The chief among these tribes are the
Aka, whom Schweinfurth found north
west Of Albert Nyassa; the Obongo. dis
covered by Du Chailiu Ia West Africa,
southeast Of Gaboon, and the Batwa
south Of Congo.
These little people range in height from
4 feet . inches to about feet 8 inches.
They are intellectually a. well a. physic-
ally inferior to the other tribes Of Africa.
They are perhaps nearer the brute king
dom than amy other human beings The
Obongo, for instance, wear no semblaasce
OF clothing; make no huts except TO bend
over and fasten to the ground the tops OF
three or four young trees, which they
cover with leaves; possess no arts except
the making Of bows and arrows, and do
not till the soil. They live on the smaller
game Of the forest, and ON nuts and ber-
ries. They regard the leopard, which
now and then makes Q meal Of one Of
them, as their deadliest enemy. Tiley
live only Q few days or weeks Ia one
place, burying themselves in some other
part Of the interminable woods as soon as
the nuts and other food supplies near
their camp begin to grow scarce.
When Schweinfurth firsk met the Aka
dwarfs he found himselk surrounded by
what he supposed was q crowd of impu-
dent boys. There were several hundred
OF them, and he soon found that they
were veritable dwarfa. and that their
tribe probably numbered several thousand
souls, One Of these dwarfs was taken to
Italy few years ago, was taught to
read, and excited much interest among
scientific men. There are other tribes Of
dwarfs in Abyssinia and also in Somah-
land. New York Sun.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17
E1-Empre.s Eugenle,. Lie.

The Empress Eugene has INDUCED her
self In little music since her arrival in
Eaples-the first in nine years. Some of
the local Italian talent responded to her
appeal, and the tenor, Anton, sang a few
charming songs in Spanish. To the EN-
press objection that they would be bet
ter accompanied by the guitar, Anton
took up that instrument and played him
self with a dash, characteristic Of the
music which he interpreted. Barbieri
played one OF two selections of Chopin on
the piano and then performed in a trio,
accompanied by violin and violoncello,
the Marquis Casafuerte and the Count
caltabellOtta playing respectively tho
violin and cello. The empress, it seems.
h much afraid Of earthquakes--ha having
made her entree ON the stage of life in
garden, under q tree, during similar
convulsion Of nature--Boston Budget.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17
A question of general interest, es-

A question Of general interest, es.
pecially to young people, has just
been learnedly discussed in England.
1t is the matter of coporal punish
ment of school boys. Hitting boys
on the hand with cane or a ruler is
denounced as cruel and unscientific.
Boxing ears is dangerous. An emf.
nent physician enumerates fifty-one
cases of injury, from deafness to
brain disease and death from this
method of castigation. The general
conclusion is that the safest place to
punish a boy is near the territory
where his hreeches reach their am
plest proportions. Moral suasion,
however, is always the best plan.
Physical castigation should be the
last resort.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17
THE sAvIoR's sEPULcHRE.

The sepnlchre itself is in the cen
tire of the church, an obloDg tomb,
into which you pass through a very
low entrance, and you find that with
IN it is divided into two chapeis, the
innermost being the spot where His
body is supposed to have been laid.
There / was one day when Syrian
woman came IN and startled me in
to the knowledge of her presence by
her bitter weeping. She had not
noticed me in the dim hight, and
plainly thought herself alone. /
could not pass her without disturb.
ing her, and as / saw her standing
before the altar, her white bead-veil
thrown back, in the simple Eastern
dress which seems to have been
handed down unchangingly, and
beating her breast passionately, then
throwing herself on the ground sob
bing her lament, and offering an
agonized prayer, 1 could not but
think OF the Mother of our Lord, Of
Mary Magdalene, and the daughters
of Jerusalem. This was one Of the
many incidents which we're perpst
ually recurring which made the time
disappear, made the past the present
and by which the dead still seemed
to be living on this earth.-From ttt
September Queen.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17
THE MAN AND THE WOMAN.

In Cincinnati a man deserted his
wife and lived with a woman who
deserted her husband for the pur-
pose of forming an unlawful and I'm.
moral copartnership. The course
of unhallowed fancy did not run
smooth, and then there was a shock.
ing tragedy. The man murdered his
companion and then took his own
life. There was nothing much out
Iofthe common run in this. 1t has
happened before; it will happen
again.
The wife of the erring husband
took his body from the morgue and
gave it decent interment. The
husband of the murdered wife refus
ed to have anything to do with the
remains, leaving them to be buried
in the Potter's field.
When the cold hand of death had
been laid upon the form she had
loved, the woman could forgive
Perhaps the old love came back
perhaps, in spite of the wrong and
the humiliation, the old love had
never left her heart. The man
stood dumb to the appeal of of death
He had been cruelty wronged, his
place given to another. There was
pollution in the very clay that lay III
the morgue; he would not touch it
Who win say thatit was his duty to
take that body from the morgue and
bury it Who will say that the
twice-widowed wife did no more than
her dutys
Men love as they are capable OF
loving, but woman's love is not in
them. Their hearts may be as pure
but not so deep.
Mans love is of mans life a thing apart.
IT'S Woman's whole existence.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17
A s1onker,s Moral Sense.

Bennett had a young gibbon siamang
(hylobates syndoctytus). He had scolded
him several times for having put various
objects out Of place, and especially once
or twice for having meddled with a GER
tain piece of soap. Gone morning while
busy writing" says this traveller, "the
monkey was in the cabin. CHANGING at
him, saw the little beggar was taking
the soap. watched him without his be-
ing aware of it, He cast from time 10
time furtive glance in my direction.
made believe to write, and he seeing me
occupied went off with the soap in his
paw. When he was at the middle Of the
cabin I spoke TO him quietly without
frightening him. When he perceived
that had seen him he retraced his steps
and put the soap nearly in the same place
from where he had taken it.
There was certainly something more
than instinct in this conduct The mon
key showed clearly by his first and by
his second action that he knew he was
doing wrong. What is reason IL not the
exercise Of this faculty!-Henry Howard
tn The Cosmopolitan.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17

No matter If the Undegraffs store is
out OF the way. No matter il it costs
you days travel and some expense to
reach it. we predict that the information
gained in thoroughly examining the
goods and prices in this store will amply
repay your expenses and time, to say
nothing of the money saved in making
your purchases. We repeat, when you
are ready to buy anything or everything
people wear, fine, medium or common
quality, don't you do it until you have
carefully examined the goods and prices
in the Updegraf stores at Hagerstown,
Nd.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17

A citizen of GAINESVILLE, Ga- whose
pet COW suddenly showed symptoms
of going dry, consulted COW doctor,
who decided that she had the "hol-
low tail" and split the tail, inserted
q quantity of salt and turpentine
and bound it up. Going out the
next day to see how the COW was
getting along the owner caught q
halfgrown pig, which be had kept In
the same lot, buslly engaged in snck-
ing the COW, and this counted for
the falling off Of milk. He at once
took the bandage of the unfortunate
cows taIl. M
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17
Tennessee furnishes an almost in

l6tlHeSScc tuTuiSueb an 8ttffOcb iu-
credible story. 1t is claim ell that
Polk, who robbed the state treasury
of several hundred thousand dollars,
is alive and doing thriving business
i'm the Cit, Of Mexico. Polk, when
his defalcation was discovered, fed
to Mexico, but was captured and
brought back to Nashville, where it
is said he died in prison. His death
and burial may have been fictitious.
Such things have occurred, and Polk
had many influential friends and re-
latives who worked INCREASINGLY for
his release from prison. IL Polk Is
in Mexico, he can still be brought
back: but who is the other man
buried in this place, or was there q
bogus funeral, with 3 stuffed dunn.
myf An exhumation OF the coffin
will, probably, determine tbe truth
or falsity Of the story.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17

Among the games enacted at some OF
the Saxon peasant weddings there is one
which deserves to be mentioned, afford
ing as it does a curious proof of the ten
acity Of old pagan rites and customs,
anssd I. BY n ye 5ter tadtRgR 4 Q@a one
eel Tanz, or dance of the horses, evidently
founded on an ancient Scandinavian le-
gend to be found in Snorri's "Edda. In
this tale the gods Thor and LolSi came to
q peasants house in a carriage drawn by
two goats or rams, and asked for anight's
lodging. Thor killed the two rams, and
with the peasant and his family consumed
their flesh for supper. The bones were
then ordered to be thrown in heap on
to the hides Of the animals; but one Of the
peasants sons had in eating broken open
q bone in order to get at the marrow
within, and next morning when the god
commanded the goats TO get up, one Of
them hmped on the hind leg, because Of
the broken bone.
At first Thor was in great rage, and
threatened TO destroy the whole family,
but finally allowed himself to be pacified,
and accepted the two sons as hostages.
fore us the gods Thor and Loki are re
placed by q colonel and n lieutenant col
onel, and instead of two goats there arc
two horses and one goat; also the two
sons Of the peasants are here designated
as Wallachians. Everything is, Of course,
much distorted and changed. but still all
the principal features Of the drama,
which space forbids me here to enlarge
upon, are clearly recognizable. The kill
ing Of the goat and its subsequent resur-
reetion, tho rage Of the colonel, and the
transfermsnt Of the two Wallachians into
his service being all parts Of the perform
Easa. -Blackwood's Magazine.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17

The circular issued from the Land
Office recentIy calls N[r. Lamar
" the Honorable Secretary Of the Tn-
terior.n 1t should not have stopped
there. II we must have that sort OF
thing, 1t shoald be Very Right
Quite Magnificently Honorable SEQ
rotary, or something OF that kind.
Let US use no halfway adjec.ises 10
our official correspondence, for this
is a great country, too great TO copy
English customs without magnify
ing them.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17

Very few people can afford to part
with their money for anything less than
its full value. Until you have thorough.
ly investigated the sources of supply and
know where to get the most for your
money, it is not wise to let it slip out Of
your pockets into other peoples pockets
Many people part with their money with
out proper care or thought. but " DOM
you do it,"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17
Useful and Hurtful Medicine.

There ID q certain class o. remedies for con-
stipation absolutely useless. These arc boluses
and potions made in great part Of podophyllin,
aloes, rhubarb. gamboge. and other worthless
Ingredients. The damage they do to the storn-
aches of those who use them Is incalculable.
They evacuate the bowels, 1t is true. but always
do so violently and profusely. and besides,
grippe the bowels. Their effect is to weaken
both them and the stomach. Better far to use
the agreeable and salutary aperient, Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters, the laxative effect of
which is never preceded by pain, or accom-
panied by a convulsive, violent action OF the
bowels. On the contrary, 1t invigorates those
organs, the stomach and the entire system.
AS a means Of curing and pre- venting malarial
fevers. no medicine can compare with it. and
it remedies nervous debility, rheumatism kid
ic ailments.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17

We learn from an observer that a
bull was wading along the edge of
the Flint River swamp last Monday,
nipping cane and keeping cool, when
a huge alligator made dash at his
nose, but missed hold. The bull
made fight and prodded the alliga-
tor with his horns. Then commenc-
ed q fierce and bloody encounter in
the shallow water that beggars des-
cription. The gator struck him
with his tail and snapped furiously
with his huge paws, tearing the Skin
and flesh in big strips from the bull.
The bull got his horns into the 'gai-
tors sides and lifting his huge car
cass tossed him high and dry on the
ground, and following up with a
deep below rushed again upon his
foe. The alligator met him with a
terrible blow of the tail, knocking of
one horn and bringing the bull to his
knees. The other horn got in under
a fore leg of gator, and the gator
getting front foot of the bull in his
mouth they became locked, and roll
ed and tumbled fearfully. They got
into the water again, where after a
brief struggle both expired. The
entrails of the 'gaitor we're protrud'
ing in several places, while the bull
was nearly stripped of hide and
flesh.--From the Sunday (Ga.J Re
publican.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17

A gentleman in London thought
lessly omitted to remove bis cork
legs before bathing. The laws Of
nature are seldom suspended in be-
half of individuals, and they were
not in this case. The gentleman
was suspended instead. In the
water the legs at once assumed a
superior position and maintained
the upper hand Of the gentleman, so
to speak, in spite of his most violent
struggles. He would have been
drowned had it not been tor timely
assistance.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17

Speaking of clothing and materials to
make them, for men, women and child
rem, We assert that the immense stores of
the Messrs. Updegraffs, at Hagerstown,
are not surpassed by any stores in the
State for quantity, variety, latest styles
and low prices, and when you have
money to spend for articles of wear,
DOM let it slip through your hands until
you have visited this store and carefully
noted the quality, styles and prices. A
dollar saved is a dollar made, and the
easiest way in this world to make dol
lar is to save it. Some people act other
wise, but if you value money don't
you do it,"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17

One year and one week ago Char.
lesion was almost ruined by one oil
the most destructive of modern
earthquakes. To-day the city is en-.
tirely rebuilt. About four millions
of dollars have been spent in i'm.
proving real estate, and of this sum
the people OF America contributed
one-fourth. May Charleston pros
per in her restoration as she has
never prospered before.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17

As a general thing, the accounts
of the shooting cases that come from
the far West picture one bad man
killing a half-Gozen sheriffs and
deputy sheriffs. 1t is somewhat re-
fieshing, therefore, to read the de-
spatch published this morning which
describes how one sheriff captured a
house, killed two desperadoes,
wounded two others and lodged all
the shots Of his opponents. A sheriff
like that ought to make a good In.
dian fighter.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17

A young lady of El Paso, Texas,
has had tue skull of a woman mount.
ed and polished, and asked her
friends to write autographs on it.
One of them has written:
Where is the patters
Where is the clatter?
Where the gray matter,
The vitalized spark /?
Science cratic,
Religion dogmatic
Are both quite emphatic,
And both in the dark.
Another asks:
Empty scabbard; where's thy
swordf
And below this another replies,
1t has scared.
An oarsman has written upon it.
have a weakness for sculls
And a cynic declares:
I'll wager there is more OIL the out
side of your head than there
ever was in the inside.
lastly a woman hater has inscrib
ed ON it the sentiment:
A ehatterbox minus the chatter.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17
Rucklen,S Arnica SaIYe.

The best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum Fever
Sores, letter Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi-
lively cures Piles, or no pay required
1t is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-
ton, or money refunded. Price 25c. per
box. For sale by E. G. Williams & Bro
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17

Compels people to wear clothing and il
takes money to get clothing. With the
present low prices for farm products and
labor, it is just as much ones duty to
buy where they can get the most and
best for their money, as it is to labor OF
till the soil, in order to get money with
which to supply their wants. Some
people are foolish enough to think and
act otherwise, but don't you do it,"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17
&c saeeseweod Of Afrien.

Among the remarkable woods of south
Africa Is sneezewood CPteroxylon utile),
which In durability is said to surpass even
hgnumvitB, producing machine bearings
which have been known to outlast those
OF both brass and ron---Chicago Herald,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17

A man welded to his own ideas Il a
pretty difficult chap to divorce. Shoe
md Leather Reporter.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17

FITS All Fits stopped free by DR.. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first
days use. Marvellous cures. Treatise
and $500 trial bottle free 10 Fit cases.
Send to DIR. Kline. 931 Arch st. Phila. Pa.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-17
ALLIGATOR-AND-BULL FIGHT.

Mans love Is of mans life thing apal
'Tis Woman's whole existence.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-24
SHOCKING ATTEMPT.
Awful Proceedings of the Liquor Ring
They Intend to Make Money out
of Blood.

The attempt of the whisky ring to
force its deadly traffic upon the State,
if successful, will force the honest la
boring men of the State to work for
all time to come to support criminals
in jail and lunatics in asylums and
the heavy unbearable tax of criminal
courts, poorhouses, filed with those
made poor by the saloons of the
country and poor orphans Of the
State made such by the drunken IA
theirs and many other burdens and
evils that will follow the continued
liquor traffic.
Rise up countrymen, in the name
of God rise up! Protect your sons,
yours. home, your hard earned
money, your sacred liberties and
above all protect yourselves from the
whisky monopoly that is drawing
one half of the money Of the State
into their own pockets. Why will
you be slaves to the liquor traffic any
longer?
Rise up to the ballot box and save
yourselves from the ruin that the
liquor boodlers are bringing upor
you!
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-24
The Whisky Men and their Wholesale
Bribery of Colored Voters.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Septem-
Der THE chairman of the colored
anti-prohibition club at the tannery,
j. G. Goodner, is out in a card resign
ing his position. 81 find," he says,
''that the would-be leaders of the
colored people are a disgrace to the
community in the campaign, and
shall meet them on the stump and
explain the whole secret to the color.
ed voters" He indorses Secretary
Conner's statement that the whisky
men have attempted a wholesale
bribery of the colored voters.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-24
A Drunkard's Will.

die a wretched sinner, and / leave
to the world a worthless reputation,
a wicked example, and a memory
that is only fit to perish. l leave to
my parents sorrow and bitterness of
soul all the days Of their lives. /
leave to my brothers and sisters
shame and grief, and the reproach of
their acquaintance. leave my wife
widowed and heart-broken, and a
life of lonely struggling with want
and suffering. | leave my children a
tainted name and a ruined position,
apitiful ignorance, and the mortify-
ing recollection of father who, by
his life, disgraced humanity, and at
his premature death joined the great
company of those who are never tC
enter the Kingdom of God.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-24
What Rum Will Do.

Some years ago, in the State of
Kentucky, a worthy man was tempt
ed to drink until he was drunk. In
the delirium of drunkenness, he went
home and murdered his wife in the
most barbarous manner. He was
carried to the Jail, while drunk, and
kept through the night. Awaking
in the morning and looking around
upon the walls and seeing the bars
upon the window, exclaimed: SIS
this a jail" eyes you are in JAIL"
answered some one. "What am /
here for" was the earnest inquiry.
For MURDER" was the answer.
With still greater establishment and
earnestness, he inquired: docs my
wife know it ?" "Your wife know
itW said some one, "why! it was
your wife you have killed." On this
announcement he dropped suddenly,
as if he had been struck dead. Let
it be remembered that the constable
who carried him to Jail sold him the
liquor which caused his drunkenness.
The justice who issued the warrant
was one of those who signed his Ii
cense, and the sheriff who hung him
also sold liquor.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-09-24
w. G. T. u. COLUMN.
Edited and Compiled by the Women
Christian Temperance Union.
THE VARS UPON US.

The wars upon us; let it come!
Pulverize the power of rum
Break the power that fain would bind
With chains and letters all mankind.
Bow not to run the suppliant knee,
Maintain your right-you were born free
Sell not your body or your souls
To sneaking, prowling human ghouls.
Shall licensed vice corrupt the land?
A hundred thousand ropers stand
To deal out the liquid draught of hell
Leaving woe where peace should dwell?
Shall widows signs and orphans tears,
With burning pangs and pains and fears
To humble, peaceful dwellings come?
Must all be sacrificed for rum
Shall that fathers darling boy
His mothers hope and future Joy
Be led a captive, die a slave?
Fill a drunkard's wretched grave?
Shall that mother, bowed with grief,
Seek the grave to find relief?
And want and woe their sorrow trace
Where happiness should find a place?
Shall that daughter, suffering wife,
Be made to eat the dregs of life,
Lack every bliss that makes a home,
To feed and prop the power of Rum?
Shall those children, pale and gaunt,
Clad in rags and trained to want,
Be made to feel the curse of rum?
Strike the devils workers down.
Arouse, we freemen, in your might!
Strike for God and win the fight!
May, Oh, Lord, Thy kingdom come;
Pulverize the power of rum.